Neil

Not sure who has been worse today. Us or the ref. Close battle.

Hibbert off Clear corner, ref gives a goal kick. Am I watching a different game here? Aye, the usual "oh, shit, we haven't improved, let's change things with 10 mins to go."

Fellaini goes up for the ball, does nothing more than touches the Stoke player while they both go for the ball, free kick Stoke!

Is this referee taking the piss? Innocuous foul on a Stoke player = free kick, Vellios in a headlock inside the area = nowt.

Stoke are getting away with some ridiculous fouls here.

He's biased, but Stoke are getting away with a fair few fouls here. Fellaini was being held by Shawcross in the area - not saying it was a stonewall penalty but he could have had few complaints if he'd pointed to the spot. Then Osman lightly tackles Crouch and Mr 6ft7 falls to the ground with gusto = free kick.

Painful to watch. It's like we've thought of what Stoke are good at (i.e. defending crosses, getting men behind the ball) and played exactly into that. Numerous times in that half Vellios was surrounded by 3+ Stoke players with no support. Embarrassing stuff, especially at home.

Decent few posts at first, and then inevitably descends into the ramblings of a 10 year old.

In other words, win and it's O'Neill's appointment which raised their game, lose and it's not his fault.

Oh no. People expect us to win. We should, like.

From what I've seen of him, a sublime player. RIP.

Their best chance is to bore the opposition into submission.

3-0.

So, does their European charge start today? Hope they've sorted out the inherently flammable transfer window.

What impressed me about Spurs yesterday is the fact they didn't let up. No intention to settle at 2-0. Could very easily have been 5 or 6 if it wasn't for JJ being on such good form.

Such an abysmal decision to send Cahill off. I accept refs will make mistakes but this season, there has been a ridiculous lack of consistency. How can you respect them when they keep making these absurd decisions on such a regular basis?

As Mike would say, I completely lost my shit when I saw that Heskey shot on MOTD. :lol:

This is getting very annoying. Yet another 8 points I would have had gone begging.

Shaun's w***-bank. Funny that because he originally posted a picture of a bunch of half naked blokes before the edit. I rest my case.

Shaun's wank-bank.

Good fucking Lord.

Think they've got enough about them to finish in the top 4, but they're regressing. Still confused as to why they got rid of CA.

What gives you the impression Chelsea will finish 3rd? Unless you mean NUFC.

Spurs also look a little dependent on Adebayor who can go off the boil. With the four teams scrapping for two places and presumably taking points off each other, it also opens things up for others to sneak in there. Not especially IMO - in their great run they're having, Adebayor went 4 or 5 games without scoring.

"Couldn't play Chelsea at a better time."